Clemens Knacke

Clemens Knacke (21 May 1770-3 June 1842) was a colonel of the French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Clemens Knacke was born on 21 May 1770 in Neuilly-le-Real, Auvergne, in the Kingdom of France. Knacke enlisted in the 7th Dragoon Regiment in 1788 at the age of 18, and took part in the suppression of some royalist uprisings in 1790. He was promoted to captain in 1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars and took part in many campaigns on the Rhine front. In 1806, his regiment was dispatched to Breslau, Silesia, where they were placed under the command of Marshal Joachim Murat. During the Battle of Glogau, Knacke's cavalry assisted in the routing of Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel's Prussian army, and he followed Murat on his campaigns into Poland and Russia. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, he lived in Auvergne and died in 1842.